Fig. 2: Distribution of climate variables in the South America.

Distribution of tree cover, mean annual precipitation (MAP), and mean annual temperature (MAT) in the study area of South America. The light gray dots are the observations from 2000 to 2020 in the three-dimensional MAP-MAT-tree-cover state space. The colored projection panels show the 2-dimensional distribution of tree cover and MAP, tree cover and MAT, as well as MAT and MAP, respectively.